Landscape Designer / Estimator — MTH Landscaping, Inc.
Location: Carsonville, MI and surrounding service areas
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $60,000–$85,000+, depending on experience
Schedule: Monday–Friday
Help us turn landscape ideas into clear, buildable, profitable projects.
MTH Landscaping, Inc. is growing across Michigan’s Thumb and Blue Water Area. We install and maintain high-quality residential and commercial landscapes, and we are building a stronger design/build process for larger residential projects.
We are hiring a Landscape Designer / Estimator to help us sell, design, estimate, and hand off landscape projects the right way.
This is not just a “pretty design” position. We need someone who can turn customer ideas into clear visuals, accurate estimates, realistic scopes, and field-ready instructions for our crews.
Is this you?
You may be a fit if you:
- Understand landscape construction, hardscapes, planting, grading, drainage, and outdoor living projects.
- Can turn rough ideas into simple, clear designs or visuals.
- Care whether the job can actually be built profitably.
- Communicate well with customers, salespeople, operations, project managers, and crews.
- Like organizing details, photos, site notes, materials, and revisions.
- Want to help build a stronger design/build system inside a growing company.
What you’ll do
- Meet with sales and customers to understand project goals, budget, style, site conditions, and timeline.
- Create concept plans, sketches, layouts, renderings, or design packages based on project size.
- Build or support estimates using labor, materials, equipment, production rates, and margin targets.
- Help prepare clear proposals for residential landscape installation projects.
- Create quick field visuals for smaller projects when needed, such as photo markups, plant placement sketches, bed layouts, access maps, staging notes, or simple renderings.
- Identify scope gaps, unclear details, site risks, material lead times, and production concerns before the job is sold.
- Build clean handoff packages for install operations, including plans, scope, estimate notes, access details, photos, materials, and customer expectations.
- Work with sales, operations, project managers, and foremen so jobs are sold and built with fewer surprises.
- Help improve MTH’s design/build process as we grow.
What success looks like
- Larger projects are designed, estimated, and handed off clearly.
- Smaller projects get practical visuals when crews need more clarity.
- Sales can move faster because estimates and design details are not stuck.
- Install crews receive better information before work starts.
- Customers have more confidence in what they are buying.
- Gross margin is protected because scope, labor, materials, and expectations are clear.
- Rework, callbacks, confusion, and missed finish details go down.
Experience we’d like to see
Preferred experience includes one or more of the following:
- Landscape design
- Landscape estimating
- Design/build sales support
- Hardscape or outdoor living planning
- Landscape construction project management
- Field experience in landscape installation
- LMN, CAD, Dynascape, SketchUp, Structure Studios, AutoCAD, or similar design/estimating tools
We are open to the right person even if you are stronger in one area than another. If you are a strong designer who wants to learn estimating, or a strong estimator who understands design/build, we would love to talk.
Why MTH?
MTH Landscaping is the fastest growing landscape company in Michigan’s Thumb and Blue Water Area. We are investing in better systems, better equipment, stronger leaders, and long term career paths.
If you want to help build something bigger — and you want your work to directly affect sales, customer experience, and field success — this could be a great fit.
Benefits
Benefits may include:
- Competitive pay based on experience
- Year-round employment opportunity
- Growth path as the design/build division expands
- Support from sales, operations, and leadership
- Opportunity to help build a high-end residential design/build process from the ground up
How to apply
Send us your resume and a short note about your landscape design, estimating, construction, or project planning experience.
If you have a portfolio, sketches, plans, estimates, renderings, markups, or photos of work you helped design or build, please include them.
Pay: $60,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
Experience:
- Landscape design: 2 years (Preferred)
- Construction estimating: 2 years (Preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Carsonville, MI 48419
